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Corporate Practice Center on Bloomberg Law

Practical GuidanceGet the easy-to-understand, plain-language analysis you need for your work. Practical Guidance in the Corporate Practice Center features expert insights from our family of authors — created by practitioners, for practitioners.

Our Compliance, Governance, Legal Department, and Alternative Entities practice pages now have their own curated collection of hundreds of practical guidance documents — more than 500 practical guidance documents across the Practice Center.

The Practical Guidance libraries feature hundreds of to-the-point overviews, annotated forms, sample documents, and checklists. Use these resources to:

• Create a compliance program for your business or client, benchmark your program against others, analyze risks, and prepare codes of conduct.

• Minimize corporate risks from ethics violations, privacy and security issues, trade practices, product safety, and other threats — internal and external.

• Advise your business or client about alternative business entities — from choice of entity to formation, reorganization, and dissolution.

Bloomberg Law’s® Corporate Practice Center integrates analysis, commentary, news, case law, tools, and trackers to give you a comprehensive understanding of issues critical to corporate law practitioners and in-house corporate counsel.

The Corporate Practice Center is organized intuitively by key areas of practice – Compliance, Governance, Legal Department, Litigation, and Alternative Entities – each of which pulls together related primary sources, news, tools, sample annotated forms, to-the-point expert guidance, and deep treatise content to provide a full range of information.

No matter the issue affecting your business or client, Bloomberg Law’s Corporate Practice Center delivers the content and expert analysis you’ll need to address the most complex matters and offer advice with confidence.

General Counsel ToolkitLeverage the General Counsel Toolkit on the Legal Department practice page to find a prioritized set of sample form agreements, templates, and policies covering common legal department tasks.

Portfolios & TreatisesGain a deeper understanding with the Corporate Practice Portfolio Series. Market-recognized, this library of more than 80 portfolios provides expert analysis and guidance across a spectrum of corporate legal issues, including compliance, governance, legal departments, and forms of business.

In addition, you’ll have access to our comprehensive collection of books and treatises, including key titles from the American Bar Association (ABA), John Wiley, the Getting the Deal Through series, and more.

Corporate AnalyticsBloomberg Law’s Corporate Analytics – such as SEC Administrative Law Judge Enforcement Analytics and SEC Shareholder Proposal No-Action Letter Analytics – translates the editorially curated, in-depth analysis of our trackers into graphical snapshots that, at a glance, tell a compelling story around topics of critical importance to corporate practitioners. Corporate Analytics helps you:

• Anticipate litigation and mitigate litigation risks and sanctions.

• Navigate the regulatory landscape.

• Stay ahead of trends affecting your corporate practice.

• Gain business insights into issues affecting corporations and industries.

Business IntelligenceDiscover strategic opportunities backed by the business and market expertise of Bloomberg and stay on top of issues affecting your company. Bloomberg Law’s Business Intelligence Center provides access from a single landing page to a number of business information and competitive intelligence resources, e.g., 3.5+ million company profiles, company report writer, company watchlist, breaking complaints, dockets, and much more. Users can create an unlimited number of customized dashboards with the tools and searches they choose.

tools. Stay up-to-date on legal and financial adviser rankings with Bloomberg League Tables.

Bloomberg Law provides an entire library of annotated forms, sample documents, checklists, and more for all your practice needs.

Transactional ResourcesLink to the Corporate Transactions landing page from the Corporate Practice Center for quick access to all the transactional resources you’ll need.

Precedent Search connects you to a proprietary database of more than one million documents from real transactions organized by Document and Transaction Types. Find the document or clause you need and target specific clause language to determine the market standard, relying on Bloomberg Law’s Draft Analyzer tool, which provides side-by-side redline comparisons of clauses.

Bloomberg Law’s EDGAR Search makes it easy to search the database and individual items in SEC Form 8-K and 10-K filings as well as individual risk factors contained within Form 10-K filings and Comment Letter Threads. Research deal terms with the M&A Deal Analytics and Equity Offering Deal Analytics

NewsAccess the latest legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments in Corporate Law & Accountability Report, Securities Law Daily, Daily Report for Executives, and other Bloomberg BNA Law Reports. You’ll also find corporate legal and business news from Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Brief newsletters, and on-point Bloomberg BNA Corporate Law Insights.

Laws, Regulations, and Agency MaterialsQuickly access state corporate and business organization statutes. Bloomberg Law provides 50-state coverage of business corporation laws, LLCs, annual shareholder meeting laws, franchise laws, and many additional state topics.

Save time and effort using Bloomberg Law’s State Blue Sky Law Chart Builders, covering 13 distinct topics, including Offers Subject to 1933 Act Registration, Broker-Dealer Registration & Reporting, Employee Benefit Plans, and many additional key topics.

The Corporate Practice Center links to key federal acts, from Dodd-Frank to Sarbanes-Oxley. Smart Code will help you identify sections of court opinions that make reference to a particular code, rule, or regulation, ranking

each extract’s discussion of the code on a sliding scale from “weak” to “strong.” It also offers the ability to search by keyword and filter by date, jurisdiction, and legal topic.

Finally, Bloomberg Law maintains a database of hundreds of federal and state agency documents, including materials from the Department of Justice and the SEC, along with Delaware and other states’ agency materials essential to your practice.

LitigationWhether you’re preparing for court or already involved in proceedings, you’ll find expert resources to make your case. Search across the entire case law database for precedent and filter by jurisdiction, state, court, topic, judge, and more. Use BCiteSM for an immediate on-screen analysis of your case to determine if it’s still “good law” and run a Dockets search for corporate law decisions, complaints, and filings.

Exclusive tools such as Litigation Analytics enable you to search millions of legal data points by company, law firm, or judge to better advise your organization, predict possible outcomes, and inform your litigation strategy. Litigation Analytics is built on a foundation of Bloomberg’s company information as well as legal data, including Bloomberg Law’s comprehensive dockets and case law collections.

Bloomberg Law’s Trackers keep you up to speed on the latest litigation developments, including the SEC ALJ Enforcement Tracker, Delaware Chancery Court Litigation Tracker, FCPA Enforcement Tracker, and Supreme Court Tracker.

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